TEHRAN — Twin blasts in Iran’s capital killed a nuclear scientist and wounded another on Monday, said state media reports that promptly blamed Israeli agents on motorbikes of attaching the bombs to their cars.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to stay away from a meeting of the Shanghai group this week as ties between Moscow and Tehran are fraying over Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme, a high-ranking Russian source said. The Shanghai...

Ahmadinejad on Monday addressed hundreds gathered in Khorramshahr — about 625 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of Tehran — when scores from the crowd interrupted his speech with shouts: “We are unemployed!” The rare protest is unusual...

The broadcasts, heavily edited images of men, some in orange jumpsuits, seated alone against a stark backdrop, did little to answer who was actually behind the attacks. In fact, the confessions contradicted public statements by other officials. With...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards today vowed to take revenge after blaming Britain and the US for a suicide bombing that killed six of its commanders and 37 others in one of the country’s most unstable provinces. The attack, which killed the...

An Iranian proposal prohibiting military attacks against nuclear installations worldwide has been approved by the UN nuclear watchdog’s general conference, an Iranian official says. “Iran’s proposal … has been approved in the...

n Iran, women have made remarkable strides in education in the last decades — 65 percent of college undergraduates are female and 70 percent of graduate students are enrolled in medicine. Yet legally, women cannot travel freely without the...

A suicide bomber lightly wounded a senior prince largely credited for Saudi Arabia’s anti-terrorism campaign when he blew himself up just before going into a gathering of well-wishers for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the state news agency...

A Tupolev passenger aircraft crashed in northwestern Iran on Wednesday and 168 people on board were killed, Iranian media reported. The Caspian Airlines aircraft was carrying 153 passengers and 15 crew, Reza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for Iran’s...

British authorities were awaiting a response from Iran today after condemning the arrests of nine embassy staff in Tehran. Although “several” of the employees have since been released, some remain in custody, according to the Foreign and...